Phylogenetic emergence and molecular evolution of the immunoglobulin family

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 70, Issue , 1998, Pages 417-506

  Marchalonis, John J ^a   Schluter, Samuel F ^a   Bernstein, Ralph M ^b   Shen, Shanxiang ^c   Edmundson, Allen B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0033492359     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
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